K.D. Nelson Lecture Series

Our weekly colloquium, the K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, features scientific talks by outstanding invited investigators from all over the world. The talks are generally one hour in length at 4:00 PM Thursday afternoons, followed by a reception. The lecture series is named for a beloved former faculty member and department chair, K. Douglas Nelson, who passed away in 2002.

Spring 2019 Schedule:

January 17 - Michael Manga - University of California at Berkeley Earthquakes and Water (and why the Lusi Eruption was not caused by an Earthquake)

January 24 - Christopher McRoberts - State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland The end-Triassic Mass Extinction: Disaster Species and the Collapse and Recovery of Marine Ecosystems

February 14 - Christopher Spencer - Institute of Geoscience Research, Curtin University Kickstarting the Modern Era: Cascading State Shifts in the Paleoproterozoic Biosphere, Atmosphere, and Lithosphere

February 28 - Jane Gilotti - University of Iowa High-Pressure and Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism in NE Greenland: the Critical Role of the UPPER Plate in the Caledonian Orogen

K.D. Nelson Lecture Series

Our weekly colloquium, the K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, features scientific talks by outstanding invited investigators from all over the world. The talks are generally one hour in length at 4:00 PM Thursday afternoons, followed by a reception. The lecture series is named for a beloved former faculty member and department chair, K. Douglas Nelson, who passed away in 2002.

Fall 2018 Schedule:

August 30—Chris Junium

September 6— Miriam Reiss (Yale) "Seismic anisotropy: how to decipher the earth's interior with

shear-wave splitting".

September 20—D. Boutt (UMass-Amherst) Water and Lithum - The nexus of hydrogeosciences and

green energy in the transition from fossil fuels

September 27—Will Nachlas Pressures, Temperatures, and Timescales of Ductility in Continental Shear Zones

October 11—James Witts from the American Museum of Natural History “The life and times of ammonoid

cephalopods: evolution, ecology, and extinction in the Late Cretaceous”

October 18—Margaret Zimmer (University of California, Santa Cruz) "More soil, less storage: The influence of soil

characteristics on water storage and runoff generation"

October 25—M. Hayashi (University of Calgary) “Alpine hydrogeology: The critical role of groundwater

in sourcing the headwaters of the world”

November 1—Steven Kidder (City College New York) Microstructural and Trace Element Constraints on Stress, Temperature and

K.D. Nelson Lecture Series

Our weekly colloquium, the K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, features scientific talks by outstanding invited investigators from all over the world. The talks are generally one hour in length at 4:00 PM Thursday afternoons, followed by a reception. The lecture series is named for a beloved former faculty member and department chair, K. Douglas Nelson, who passed away in 2002.

Spring 2018 Schedule:

January 18—climate search

January 23—climate search

January 25—climate search

February 1—climate search

February 8—climate search

February 15—CANCELED - Gray Bebout (Lehigh University)

February 22—Andrew Smye (Penn State University) “Mineral Scale Constraints on the Geodynamics of Continental Extension”

March 1—open

March 8—Benjamin Black (The City College of New York) "Resolving the Flood Basalt Carbon Quandary"

March 22—Dianne Moore (USGS) "The role of serpentinite in promoting creep in the San Andreas Fault System of central and northern California"

March 29—Morgan Schaller (rensselaer polytechnic institute) "Soil carbonate-hosted fluid inclusions: New constraints on the major gas composition of the ancient atmosphere"